7 Ways to Incorporate March Madness Into Your Classroom

 

Happy Palindrome Day.  It is 2/22/22 or is it 22/2/22 or 22022022.  Well you get it.

As a librarian I used to use March Reading Madness.  I would have the top 64 read books read from our library that year and set up a bracket. You can see the article I wrote about this here. 

Then I would use odds based on the number of times a book was taken out and then have a student use the random number generator on their calculator to figure out which book would win.  Each day the winning book was announced and I would adjust the big bracket I had in the library.  It was pretty cool.  In this article their are 6 other ideas to use.  To see the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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March Reading Madness

Well it is March and I know you ballers are looking forward to March Madness.  In the library I have run March Reading Madness to  coincide with they 64 team tourney.  I have selected the top  16 books that have gone out in our library based on the books circulation.  To decide which book moves on we use a bit of probability.

  Let us assume book A has been taken out 30 times and book B has been taken out 20 times then book A should  get through to the next round 30/(30+20) or 3/5ths of the time compared to book B's 2/5ths of the time.  We then have a student use their calculator and the random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 50.  If it is 1-30 then book A advances and if it is 31-50 then book B advances.  Just working a bit of math in here for you.

March Reading Madness 2016 and the Sweet Sixteen

The brackets have been set and will be announced on Monday.

The top 4 books taken out will be the one seeds in each of the 4 regions and will be playing books 13-16 (which are the four seeds).  The middle books make up the 2 and 3 seeds in each of the 4 regions.  The seeding is based on the number of times a book has been taken out of the library.  If a book has been taken out 40 times and it is playing a book that has been taken out 10 times for example then the higher seeded book has a 40 out of 50 chance of winning.  This will be done using a random number generator.  I will post a picture on Monday of the Sweet Sixteen.